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Mentors guide students beyond the books

May 9, 2012  |   2012 Highlights: Mentoring, For Alumni, For Parents, Mentoring, Personal and Career Development, Staff, Student, Top Stories, Working Together

Wake Forest University students and alumni usually have stories to tell about the close relationships they develop with faculty and staff members during their time on campus. Is it our low teacher-student ratio? Our devotion to Pro Humanitate? Decide for yourself as you look beyond the books.

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LinkedIn to the liberal arts

April 9, 2012  |   Alumni, For Alumni, For Parents, Personal and Career Development, School of Law, Staff, Top Stories, Wake Forest College, Working Together

Students at Wake Forest University learn ways the professional business network LinkedIn can help them prepare for their careers after college.

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The value of mentorship

May 3, 2011  |   Alumni, Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Research, Student, Teacher-Scholar, Top Stories, Wake Forest College, Working Together

For nearly 20 years, Professor of Political Science Helga Welsh has been reaching out to students as a partner in education — embracing a concept of learning that pairs classroom work with mentoring relationships.

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Citizenship: From class to community

April 7, 2011  |   Community, Events, Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Humanities, Life on Campus, Pro Humanitate, Teacher-Scholar, Top Stories, Wake Forest College, Working Together

Students in Alessandra Beasley Von Burg’s communications class are putting what they’ve learned in the classroom about citizenship into action with a symposium today on the rights and responsibilities of citizenship. The symposium is free and open to the public.

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Inspiring student involvement

February 21, 2011  |   For Parents, Research, Teacher-Scholar, Top Stories, Wake Forest College, Working Together

Mathematics professor Kenneth Berenhaut has co-authored over 50 articles with his students in the past eight years. Committed to the teacher-scholar model, he founded “Involve—A Journal of Mathematics,” the only student-faculty collaborative journal in the field.

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Physics for the future

December 6, 2010  |   Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Research, Student, Teacher-Scholar, Top Stories, Wake Forest College, Working Together

By 2015, plastic flexible electronics is estimated to be a $30 billion market, according to Oana Jurchescu, assistant professor of physics. Jurchescu and her undergraduate students are working together on the development of these technologies in her lab.

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Global citizenship

November 28, 2010  |   Admissions, Audiences, For Parents, International, Research, Student, Top Stories, Wake Forest College, Working Together

What do Indian food and filmmaking tell us about America? Under the guidance of Assistant Professor Sandya Hewamanne, students Bridget Bagel and Meenu Krishnan conducted research, which they presented at the Conference on South Asia.

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Myths and monsters

November 22, 2010  |   Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Humanities, Teacher-Scholar, Top Stories, Wake Forest College, Working Together

In Tina Boyer’s first-year seminar class, students meet dragons, giants and other mythological creatures.

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‘I See’

November 15, 2010  |   Arts & Culture, Community, Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Student, Top Stories, Wake Forest College, Working Together

Students in John Pickel’s lab have completed video art installations that will be exhibited Nov. 16-27 at the Student Art Gallery (START Gallery) in Reynolda Village.

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iPad more than a gadget

November 7, 2010  |   Faculty, For Alumni, Research, Top Stories, Working Together

Education professor Kristin Redington Bennett knows iPads can revolutionize the K-12 classroom – bringing Internet connectivity to every student and ridding desks and worktables of textbooks, notebooks and binders.

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